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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1711
People
Joseph Woodson Whitesell, American (Libertyville, Indiana 1876 - 1958 New Orleans, Louisiana )
Title
Circus Comes to Town, Bloomington, Indiana
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1914
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Indiana
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/157504

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
mount: 26.6 x 34.2 cm (10 1/2 x 13 7/16 in.)
image: 51 x 40.5 cm (20 1/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: recto of mount, below b.r. corner of image, in graphite: Whitesell N.O.
  • inscription: recto of mount, below b.l. corner of image, in graphite: Circus Comes to Town Bloomington, Ind. About 1914
  • inscription: verso, upper edge: #2 - Circus Comes to Town (chloride)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.1711
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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